With over 800 million visitors per month, YouTube can be a valuable tool for reaching a vast audience of potential clients and customers for your business. YouTube videos, which are usually short, easily digested content, could be a great way to market your products or services without purchasing ad space or spending money on a television commercial. Using Aperture, Apple’s photo management and editing utility, you can export photo slide shows directly to YouTube. You can also add a soundtrack and transition effects to spice up your video.

Create a Multimedia Slide Show

Step 1

Open the "Library" tab in Aperture and select the images you want to use in your slide show.

Step 2

Click the “New” button on the toolbar and then select “Slideshow.”

Step 3

Enter a name for your slide show in the “Slideshow Name” input box.

Step 4

Select a theme for the slide show, and then click the “Choose Theme” button.

Step 5

Select a background color from the Background menu in the Default Settings panel. You can also change the default slide duration and title options in this panel.

Step 6

Drag and drop images in the slide show filmstrip panel to rearrange them.

Step 7

Click on a slide or select multiple slides from the filmstrip panel, then click the “Selected Slides” button. In this panel, you can add a photo effect, change the crop options and add a transition effect.

Step 8

Click the "Audio" button to open the Audio panel.

Step 9

Click and drag an audio file to the filmstrip panel to add it to the slide show. Drag and drop the audio track within the filmstrip panel to adjust when the audio begins playing.

Step 10

Click the "Playback" button to preview the slide show.

Export and Upload the Slide Show to YouTube

Step 1

Click the “Export…” button.

Step 2

Enter a name for the exported slideshow video in the “Save As” input box.

Step 3

Click the “Where” menu and select “MobileMe, YouTube.”

Step 4

Click the “Export” button.

Step 5

Navigate to the "Upload Your Video" page on YouTube (link in Resources) and log in to your account.

Step 6

Click the “Select files from your computer” button.

Step 7

Select the exported slide show video and click the “Open” button. After the upload completes, the video settings window opens.

Step 8

Enter a title and description for your video in the applicable boxes. You can also add tags and select a category for the video. Click the “Save” button.

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Jacob Michael has been a freelance writer since 2010, with expertise in computers, cooking, travel and other topics. He holds a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and is pursuing a master's degree in American studies.